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• Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Taken, Imagination, Solitude

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.148, Stanford University Press

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• And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

  Jean Rhys

  Betrayal, Doe, Judas

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Peace, Humanity

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

  Wendell Phillips

  Writing, Government, People

  Bulletin, Volume 8, Issues 11-18, p. 69,

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• The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Time, Interesting, Allies

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• When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

  Neil Steinberg

  Party, Government, America

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• Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Leadership, Fall, Play

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.10

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Humanity, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be a Benedict Arnold is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Independence, Sacred, Way

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• I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Views, Insidious

  Remarks By George Bush at the Dedication Ceremony, www.cia.gov. April 26, 1999.

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• But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Time, Loss, Accepting

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, Real, Thieves

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  School, Rights, Rome

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• The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Treason, Please

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

  Robert Greene

  Revenge, Unjust, May

  Robert Greene, La Serre (Jean-Puget, M. de) (1588). “Greene's "Pandosto" or "Dorastus and Fawnia": being the original of Shakespeare's "Winter's tale"”, p.9

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• You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Sports, Country, Body

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• Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Teacher, Jesus, Community

  Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”

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• He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

  Saadi

  Suffering Of Others, Indifference, Indifferent

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• Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

  John F. Kerry

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

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• For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Fate, Care

  Andrew Johnson (1866). “Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man”, p.131

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• I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Nsa

  "The Snowden Index: A glance at opinions about the NSA leaker", www.cnn.com.

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• The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Clothes, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.101, Createspace Independent Pub

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• We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

  R. C. Sproul

  Problem, Crosses, Cosmic

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• I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Martin Sheen

  Military, Accused, Has Beens

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doe, May, Return Of The King

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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